small farm landholdings couples with scattered plots have created a major challenge in agricultural development in iran. land fragmentation provides an appropriate strategy to overcome current problems in iranian farming systems. therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to shed light on development pathologies in terms of land rehabilitation, reconsolidation, and improvement in mian...

Even within these regions, however, there is considerable variation across countries, which is sometimes an artifact of very different definitions of ‘rural’ . The one safe generalization is that the non-farm sector is heterogeneous. This component of the rural economy comprises a wide spectrum of activities and institutional forms, and is often linked in complex ways to country-specific agricu...

Exploring in public policy making of villagers participation is the key point in the scientification and democratization of the policy. This paper takes the deliberative governance model in Zhejiang Province as example to study why and how villagers can participate in rural public policy making and how villagers' wills are taken into account in rural governance in China nowadays. And an effecti...

In this study, we analyze the effect of property taxes on changes between agricultural, forestry, Conservation Reserve Program, and developed land uses in Louisiana. We estimate a random parameters logit model of land-use conversion from the National Resources Inventory plot data. Our results indicate that land-use changes are inelastic with respect to property taxes. Simulation shows that curr...

Market failures affecting economic growth in poor rural areas are firmly on the agenda but for goods and services with private good characteristics are generally not conceptualised and understood in ways that help policy analysis and formulation to recognise and address these failures. We need a greater recognition and understanding of the causes and nature of coordination failures which lead t...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at Kermanshah Province. Statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at Bisotoun district in Harsin Township, Kermanshah Province, Iran (N=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. The main instrument...